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Operating System Not Found, Can't Use CD Drive

I'm afraid you have a hard disk problem, it has probably failed.If you have entered your BIOS and the hard disk has been set to auto (detect) and when you boot up and you press F1 to continue and get a message "Operating System not found" then ...
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Trubleshoot Motherboard what is mother board prob and how can find n fix them....

More than 70% of all computer problems are related to cabling and connections. Ensure all cables are connected and connected firmly. IDE and floppy ribbon cables and power cables can often go loose. Ensure microprocessor, memory modules, and adapters ...
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My New Gateway isn't recognizing the cd/dvd drive :(

PLEASE read all the way through before doing any of the options.Thanks,Sounds like something in the system files/registry may have gotten corrupt. Perhaps one of the programs you installed caused an issue. Whatever the case, if it's brand ...
Toshiba Satellite P205-S6287 Notebook PC

OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND....NO ACCESS TO CD DRIVE

Connect your external CDROM to the laptop. I think it is a USB CDROM. Enter your bios setup. In the boot device section, try to find any option which says First Boot Device -> USB CDROM. If you can set this things then the computer will be able to ...
Sony VAIO GRX550 Notebook

I have a latitude c610 and on start up a message saying media test failure check cable.can any one help.

Smart Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 4

Are you sure you don't have a usb or other device plugged into your computer. Your main hard drive should be disc 0. Disc 4 is usually a disc further down the line, like an external or something like that. If it indeed the case then you may be having ...
Dell Inspiron 1501 Notebook

Smart event occurred dell inspiron 1525

A SMART error is the result of a built in diagnostic system of the hard disk drive. Most current computer system make use of this technology and it can give you some warning before a drive fails giving time to backup data before the drive finally fa ...
Dell Inspiron 1525 Notebook

Seagate 100GB Hard Drive for notebook SMART failure

Solution #1 is grossly incorrect. The S.M.A.R.T. mechanism is software/application/drive content agnostic. It is a firmware-based predictive failure feature. If the S.M.A.R.T. test returns a certain bit, then the drive is degrading and in need of ...
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Hard disk failure

What exactly does the error say?\015\012\015\012The safest thing to do is to stop powering up the hard drive. Get a\015\012new hard drive and adapter cable to pull the data off the old hard\015\012drive (secondary) and onto the new hard ...
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Hard drive issues

I'm going to give you a couple of ideas here....first, make sure you have a windows installation disc, we are going to try and repair your boot volumn first and see if we can't get this thing booted. Just follow the guide below for the first fix. Sec ...
Dell Dimension E510 PC Desktop

I get non-system disk or disk error what is this telling me

These are warnings and are indicatice of a hard drive failure. Try the following repair to see if the system can be fixed as is.....\015\012\015\012Windows Start-up Errors \015\01 ...
Compaq Armada E500 Notebook

"Hardware Failure" My wife woke me up the other day to say that her laptop was broken. She says she found it with a message that included the words "hardware failure" on-screen, and when she tried to restart it, it just freezes up. It shows the normal "Compaq" splash screen when first powered up, but the screen then goes dark with only a flashing cursor in the upper left.
I got into BIOS and ran a hard disk check, which came back fine, but I cannot find any way to get it running again. I'm pr

Hi,as you have said that the hard drive self test is working fine ,which means the hard disk is working fine ...\015\012Perform the following two steps to solve the hardware failure problems...\015\012\015\0121.try to reset the RAM in the notebook . ...
HP Compaq Presario V2000 Notebook

My acer 4320 can't see my hard drive - media test failure PXE-E61 - Operating system not found. Was working fine then half way through using it it came up with a black screen and the error message above. Thought it might be a dodgy hard drive so l replaced the hard drive with a known working one from my brother in laws pc and it says it can'tfond the hard drive. On the information screen in setup it does not show the hard drive but it does show the dvdrw drive etc. Any advice how l can get t

The PXE media test failure suggests it's trying to boot from the network as it is reached that method in the BIOS boot order due to no other boot devices being available, this can be ignored.\015\012\015\012If you have the option, reset your BI ...
Acer TravelMate 4320 Notebook

Hard drive failure

No bootable device message, says insert boot disk what is that

Usually this is idicative of a hard drive failure, try to boot with the windows cd and see if it will boot up. Try this below......\015\012\015\012 \015\012Windows Start-up Errors ...
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Start up problem

This generally indicates a hard drive failure. You can try to do an operating system repair with the recovery or operating system disc, but most likely you will need to replace the hard drive. \015\012\015\012When you see the IBM screen y ...
IBM ThinkPad T30 2366 Notebook

Hard Drive Boot issues

My LaCIe external hard drive will not open - I get a message saying that the disc is not ready and there may be a drawer open as though it is a DVD ROM - I have tried it on 3 diff computers and the message is the same

I am not really sure where to start here because I am a little confused\015\012about your setup here. It seems you made a great choice to keep Windows\015\012and your data on separate drives. Your primary hard drive is a really\015\012fast SATA Rapto ...
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Got a medion mt255 that i cant get to start up

Hi f clarkson,It sounds like either your hard drive is going bad or that there are substantial software errors on said hard drive.The first thing I would suggest would be running a chkdsk /r on the hard drive. You can obtain ...
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When you turn the computer on it says SMART Failer predicted on hard disk 0: HTS54108G9SA00-(S1)

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a\015\012 diagnostic method originally developed by IBM\015\012 that at t ...
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I have a dell and when i turn it on it says media test failure check cable and it says operating system not found

If all cables to hard disk are in place the its itheir one of these it could just be a operating system failure in which case you need your coa which is usauly on outer casing of your system and a xp disk the second one is a complete hard drive failu ...
Toshiba Satellite A135-S2276 Notebook

Powers up does not boot

Sounds like a bad harddrive! If possible try replacing the harddrive!Ill bet that would solve the problems you are having! ...
Sony VAIO PCG-K35 Notebook